As the sun peeks over the horizon in Sarangani province, Philippines, 43-year-old Virgie Montero bustles around the house, preparing breakfast for her husband and four children before heading to work at her convenience store along the main road.
Despite pockets of progress, Nepal’s water security, as measured by the metrics of equity, functionality, and ecosystem health, is among the weakest in Asia.
Current water security challenges facing the Philippine archipelago include burgeoning populations, unsustainable land uses, and deficient wastewater services.
In 2020, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) project conducted a
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has been implemented widely across Ghana and has led to many communities declared to be open defecation-free (ODF). However, the poor often do not benefit equally from CLTS programs.
Campylobacter spp. infections are the most common bacterial cause of gastroenteritis (Murray et al., 2012). In children under two years of age, Campylobacter spp.
As the effects of COVID-19 continued to reverberate around the world in 2021, USAID ramped up its response to expand critical water and sanitation access for millions of people worldwide.